• Go to a minor league baseball game, bring home a hockey jersey. [Sporting News]

• Want to snag some Winter Classic tickets off the secondary market? Better wait until closer to New Year's. [Brooks Laichyear]

• What would it take for a LeBron James/coming home type situation to happen in the NHL? [SenShot]

• Play fantasy hockey? Use plus-minus as a stat category? Then stay away from these guys. [Dobber Hockey]

• NBC's Al Michaels on the Stanley Cup Playoffs: "My (L.A.) Kings have won the Stanley Cup twice in the past three years," he says. Michaels added he watched every Kings game in their march to the Cup "and felt like I got hit by a car after every one of them. I told (NHL Commissioner) Gary Bettman, this is the only sport where, at the end of the game, the fans are more exhausted than the players. So, to me, keep doing what you're doing with hockey." [Faceoff.com via CP]